in poverty? Using counterfactual simulations, this paper accounts for the contribution labor income has made to the … observed changes in poverty over the past decade for a set of 16 countries that have experienced substantial declines in … poverty. In contrast to methods that focus on aggregate summary statistics, the analysis generates entire counterfactual …

This paper quantifies the contributions to poverty reduction observed in Sri Lanka between 2002 and 2012/13. The …, labor, and non-labor incomes in explaining poverty reduction. The findings show that the most important contributor to … poverty reduction was growth in labor income, stemming from an increase in the returns to salaried nonfarm workers and higher …

in poverty? Using counterfactual simulations, this paper accounts for the contribution labor income has made to the … observed changes in poverty over the past decade for a set of 16 countries that have experienced substantial declines in … poverty. In contrast to methods that focus on aggregate summary statistics, the analysis generates entire counterfactual …

This paper quantifies the contributions to poverty reduction observed in Sri Lanka between 2002 and 2012/13. The …, labor, and non-labor incomes in explaining poverty reduction. The findings show that the most important contributor to … poverty reduction was growth in labor income, stemming from an increase in the returns to salaried nonfarm workers and higher …

in poverty? Using counterfactual simulations, this paper accounts for the contribution labor income has made to the … observed changes in poverty over the past decade for a set of 16 countries that have experienced substantial declines in … poverty. In contrast to methods that focus on aggregate summary statistics, the analysis generates entire counterfactual …

Improvement in labor market conditions has been the main explanation behind many of the poverty success stories … observed in the last decade, that is the primary conclusion of an analysis of changes in poverty by income source. Changes in … labor earnings were the largest contributor to poverty reduction for a sample of 16 countries where poverty increased …